Andrea (Scottie) Siewers

MPH

Data Analyst

Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

(207) 662-2761 Office

(207) 662-3119 Fax

Scottie Siewers received her Bachelors degree from the College of Wooster and attended the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, obtaining her Master’s degree in 1996 from the Department of Biostatistics and completing all but her dissertation toward a PhD from the Department of Epidemiology. She has been with CORE as a data analyst since 1996, performing large administrative claims based analyses with an emphasis on small area variations, cardiovascular disease and the relationship between provider volume and outcome.

Selected peer-review publications (in chronological order)

Laycock WS. Siewers AE. Birkmeyer CM. Wennberg DE. Birkmeyer JD. Variation in the use of laparoscopic cholecystectomy for elderly patients with acute cholecystitis. Archives of Surgery. 135(4):457-62, 2000 Apr.
McGrath PD. Wennberg DE. Dickens JD Jr. Siewers AE. Lucas FL. Malenka DJ. Kellett MA Jr. Ryan TJ Jr. Relation between operator and hospital volume and outcomes following percutaneous coronary interventions in the era of the coronary stent. JAMA. 284(24):3139-44, 2000 Dec 27.
Axelrod DA. Fendrick AM. Birkmeyer JD. Wennberg DE. Siewers AE. Cardiologists performing peripheral angioplasties: impact on utilization. Effective Clinical Practice. 4(5):191-8, 2001 Sep-Oct.
Birkmeyer JD. Siewers AE. Finlayson EV. Stukel TA. Lucas FL. Batista I. Welch HG. Wennberg DE. Hospital volume and surgical mortality in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine. 346(15):1128-37, 2002 Apr 11.
Goodney PP. Siewers AE. Stukel TA. Lucas FL. Wennberg DE. Birkmeyer JD. Is surgery getting safer? National trends in operative mortality. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 195(2):219-27, 2002 Aug.
Finlayson EV. Birkmeyer JD. Stukel TA. Siewers AE. Lucas FL. Wennberg DE. Adjusting surgical mortality rates for patient comorbidities: more harm than good? Surgery. 132(5):787-94, 2002 Nov.
Cohen MC. Siewers AE. Dickens JD Jr. Hill T. Muller JE. Perioperative and long-term prognostic value of dipyridamole Tc-99m sestamibi myocardial tomography in patients evaluated for elective vascular surgery. Journal of Nuclear Cardiology. 10(5):464-72, 2003 Sep-Oct.
Birkmeyer JD. Siewers AE. Marth NJ. Goodman DC. Regionalization of high-risk surgery and implications for patient travel times. JAMA. 290(20):2703-8, 2003 Nov 26.
Birkmeyer JD. Stukel TA. Siewers AE. Goodney PP. Wennberg DE. Lucas FL. Surgeon volume and operative mortality in the United States. New England Journal of Medicine. 349(22):2117-27, 2003 Nov 27.
Wennberg DE. Lucas FL. Siewers AE. Kellett MA. Malenka DJ. Outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions performed at centers without and with onsite coronary artery bypass graft surgery. JAMA. 292(16):1961-8, 2004 Oct 27.
Lucas FL. DeLorenzo MA. Siewers AE. Wennberg DE. Temporal trends in the utilization of diagnostic testing and treatments for cardiovascular disease in the United States, 1993-2001. Circulation. 113(3):374-9, 2006 Jan 24.
Lucas FL. Stukel TA. Morris AM. Siewers AE. Birkmeyer JD. Race and surgical mortality in the United States. Annals of Surgery. 243(2):281-6, 2006 Feb.
Wilson CT. Fisher ES. Welch HG. Siewers AE. Lucas FL. U.S. trends in CABG hospital volume: the effect of adding cardiac surgery programs.[see comment]. Health Affairs. 26(1):162-8, 2007 Jan-Feb.
Lucas FL. Siewers AE. DeLorenzo MA. Wennberg DE. Differences in cardiac stress testing by sex and race among Medicare beneficiaries. American Heart Journal. 154(3):502-9, 2007 Sep.